“Predictive technical analysis is chart/pattern reading. Trend following, on the other hand, is reactive technical analysis – a diversified portfolio perspective of markets using momentum indicators.” – Michael Covel Trend following is a trading strategy which attempts to profit from long-term or short-term moves in price action that happen at times in financial markets. Trend […]
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Moving averages are the best indicators for the direction of a trend because of their power and simplicity to smooth out price direction in trend trading. They create lines on your charts to filter out the daily trading ranges and show the true direction a market is going in for a specific time frame. When
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“Trend followers use reactive technical analysis. Instead of trying to predict a market direction, their strategy is to react to the market’s movements whenever they occur. This enables them to focus on the market’s actual moves and not get emotionally involved with trying to predict direction or duration.” -Michael Covel Trading a trend in price
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Market Wizard Richard Dennis known as the ‘Prince of the Pit’ turned $1,600 into $200 million in 10 years trend trading commodities. What happened when legendary trader Richard Dennis put a want ad in the paper to hire traders? What kind of results would ordinary people have if they were given a winning system and
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co As the stock market rallies higher and approaches its 50% Fibonacci retracement resistance, we can see a clear divergence in the data: The economic data is mixed, with some long term macro models turning bearish. Breadth is long term bullish. Quantitative market patterns are medium
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A moving average is a trend following indicator that can be used to filter price action and capture trends by keeping a trader long during up trends and in cash or short during downtrends. Here is an example of the key long term moving average on the Facebook chart that would have captured the uptrend
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What type of strategy exactly is trend trading or trend following? “Trend followers use reactive technical analysis. Instead of trying to predict a market direction, their strategy is to react to the market’s movements whenever they occur. This enables them to focus on the market’s actual moves and not get emotionally involved with trying to
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Last week the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below the 200 day moving average for the first time since 2016. And
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What if I told you there was an incredibly simple moving average system that crushed buy and hold investing? It is not that complicated and only takes one action on the last day of the month to execute it. It over doubles the returns in the S&P 500 index and cuts the drawdown in half.
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